Surf-Forecast | Le Bons Bay Surf Guide

Lat Long: 43.74° S 173.10° E

Issued: 12 am 05 Nov 2026 (local time)

Forecast update in hr min

Today's Le Bons Bay sea temperature is

12.9°C

Le Bons Bay surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

Le Bons Bay Surf Guide

Le Bons Bay in Canterbury is an exposed beach break that has reasonably consistent surf and can work at any time of the year. Offshore winds are from the west southwest. Most of the surf here comes from groundswells and the ideal swell angle is from the east southeast. The beach breaks offer lefts and rights. Sometimes crowded. Take care of rips and rocks.

Le Bons Bay Spot Info

Type:	Rating:	Reliability:	Todays Sea Temp*:
Beach	3	fairly consistent	12.9°C*ocean temperature recorded from satellite

Surfing Le Bons Bay:

The best conditions reported for surf at Le Bons Bay occur when a East-southeast swell combines with an offshore wind direction from the West-southwest.

Hourly Forecast

16 Day Forecast

Explore Le Bons Bay Location Map

Interactive Le Bons Bay surf break location map. View information about nearby surf breaks, their wave consistency and rating compared to other spots in the region. Current swell conditions from local buoys are shown along with live wind speed and direction from nearby weather stations. Click icons on the map for more detail.

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Live Wave Height (m)
Live Wind Speed (km/h)
Surf Rating (10 Max)
Ocean Swells (m)
Wind Speed (km/h)

Please note that some surf spot locations are approximate to protect their exact location while others are not shown at close zoom level.

Le Bons Bay Surf Forecasts:

Hourly Forecast

16 Day Forecast

Todays Surf Summary
Thursday, 5 November 2026, 04:45 Local Time

m, °C	Thursday 05
ft, °F	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM
Wave (m)	NE	NE	NE	NE
Period (s)	7	6	6	6
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- on

Tides at Le Bons Bay

Current tide and informaton

For Banks Peninsula - Gough Bay, 7 km from Le Bons Bay.

Next High Water: 01:42pm | 1.88m

Next Low Water: 07:24am | 0.17m

NEXT	IS AT (local time)	remaining
high tide
low tide

Le Bons Bay Sea Temperature

Don't be misled by the forecast of warm air temperatures at Le Bons Bay because the water temperature at Le Bons Bay is much colder (12.9 °C) than the air (20.0 °C) today. Surfers will need a decent quality spring wetsuit, gloves and boots and a hood if you expect to be duck-diving a lot. Feeling much more pleasant out of the water than in the sea today.

Today, many surfers would wear a spring wetsuit, a neoprene hood, gloves and boots.